AUCHINLEE may have a stay of execution but it is not a done deal and will need a further meeting next month to ratify the decision.
There is a crisis in social care as an ageing population requiring specialist provision grows ever larger.
Just as mental health professionals found in the 1980s, when the government coined care in the community, one plan is to shut long-term homes, as happened with Vic torian psychiatric institutions and force the patients either on to relatives or into unsuitable accommodation.